This wiki supports the University of Surrey's Life-Wide Learning enterprise
The University of Surrey Student Experience Strategy sets out a vision for a ‘complete education’ inspired by the belief that a higher education experience should recognise that students are engaged in learning in all aspects of their lives while they are studying at Surrey. It is this ‘whole of life’ learning that enables students to develop their unique identity, confidence and spirit to be who they want to be and ultimately realise their full potential as a human being.
‘Whole life’ learningembraces learning in the classroom, on work placement, in paid or unpaid part-time work, in co-curricular settings and many other aspects of life. These contexts constitute a learners own 'life-wide curriculum' and by recognising this we can enable learners to integrate learning gained from experiences from all parts into their higher education experience. The University is developing and examining the feasibility of an Award to encourage, recognize and value whole-life learning and students' own efforts to make their own education more complete.
Vision
Our vision of ‘whole life’ learningembraces the ideas of ‘life-long learning’, ‘life-wide-learning’ and ‘personal wellbeing’ and encompassesformal and informal learning in the classroom, on work placement, in paid or unpaid work or voluntary service, in extra-curricular settingsand other aspects of life. It connects and embeds academic and professional development within the disciplinary curriculum whilstencouraging and enabling students to make use of the wide range of developmental opportunities offered by the university and the wider world. It sees the professional training experience as a key component of learner development and we encourage our undergraduate students to engage in work experiences. Our vision of learning encourages students to actively participate in all the opportunities for learning that life has to offer and seeks to recognize and value learning gained through experience outside the academic curriculum. Our commitment to this vision is manifested in our decision to develop a Surrey Award to enable the University to publicly recognise the learning gained from experiences outside the formal curriculum.
Professor Christopher SnowdenVice-Chancellor,UniversityofSurrey.
Welcome message in the University's Learning to be Professional through
a Life-Wide Curriculum Conference Programme March 2009
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